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Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
Broun, T. 1880: Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Government Printer, Wellington. Crowson, R.A. 1961: Considerations on the genera Endecatomus Mellié and Euderia Broun (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae), with descriptions of their larvae. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 30: 113–120.
The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal species; [2] new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species.
This article classifies the subgroups of the order Coleoptera down to the level of families, following the system in "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)", Bouchard, et al. (2011), [1] with corrections and additions from 2020, [2] with common names from bugguide.net. [3] Order Coleoptera. Suborder †Protocoleoptera
The most encountered terms used in Diptera identification keys are:– cell cup. Also called the posterior cubital cell and often called the anal cell. The form of the cell cup is an important character. costal break. These frequently occur especially in the Schizophora. They are weakenings of the costa and are one to three in number.
In biology, an identification key, taxonomic key, or frequently just key, is a printed or computer-aided device that aids in the identification of biological organisms. Historically, the most common type of identification key is the dichotomous key , a type of single-access key which offers a fixed sequence of identification steps, each with ...
Coleopterology (from Coleoptera and Greek-λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of beetles, a branch of entomology. Practitioners are termed coleopterists and form groups of amateurs and professionals for business and pleasure. Among these is The Coleopterists Society, an international organization based in the United States.
Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Vol. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779– 1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. LeConte, J.L. (1861).